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Frog Dreaming (aka "the Quest" in the US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Dreaming

Yep - this is the same BS marketing campaign the Chevron tried to (succeeded actually) pull of in the early 2000's WRT global warming. There's was energy. The campaigns were like "I will take the bus to work" or "I will use my hair drier less".

It's a deflection campaign - focusing consumer attention on a thing that is true (that won't cost them money) to divert attention from another thing that is true (that will cost them money and is their fault).

Both are true - and if they want to exploit a commons (the environment, the electrical grid), then they should pay for that exploit.

"...[the prediction that AI will continue to grow] will be proven wrong because everybody hates it."

I have no love for Zuckerberg or Lucky or Musk or any of those gadooshbags, but I don't hate generative AI. It's a useful tool and I've been using it consistently every day for well over a year. I'm part of "everybody", so that's at least one counterexample.

"ERP" not defined upon first use. I stopped reading.

It was a general statement about any company with a value to employee ration that high. It's about sharing gains of a team as a whole.

$1.75T / 25,000 employees = $70M/employee. That's pretty impressive.

You would think even the lowest paid employees performing routine labor at the company would be pulling in multiple 6-figure salaries. I wonder if that's the case?

Yep. I guess it was "hidden" until they published the method to detect the signal.

This article doesn't address the title question for me. It starts off by implying some insight into whether or not our consciousness persists or simply dissolves into nothingness, but concludes with the same old trope about our bodies matter and energy being recycled into the universe. Our matter and energy are not our consciousness, the arrangement of our matter and energy is most likely our consciousness.

"I" was perfectly fine before I was born, and therefore I'm very certain "I" will be perfectly fine after I die. That's comforting to me when I periodically have an existential crisis.

No reply - so this is just an ad then vice a genuine solicitation for peer feedback?

Why are the after pictures modifying attributes that are not part of the cosmetic adjustment? For instance, in the 'after' images skin tones are more "tan" (less pale), eye shadow is more intense, in one scene the woman is smiling vs not. All of these subtle cues make it artificially look like the cosmetic adjustment is "better" - just like all of those junk weight loss, age reversal, and muscle building before/after ads.

I actually see the value in your idea, but it looks like it still needs work to be trustworthy.

Personally, I would only trust it after seeing several 'ground truth comparisons of predicted results compared to the actual photos of people who had the procedure done.

If you're going to post an AI generated response, just say it's AI generated.

...Yeah, for the 10's of articles I actually read in a day (at least with cobcern about their validity) that amount of homework would probably blow up my screen time by 5X, and result in my divorce.

"You left out the "trustable" adjective, and that's the killer."

Agreed. If there were a simple 3rd party vetting service that currenlty trusted purveyor's of news used religiously, that in and of itself would allow me to trust said third party validator for other, perhaps non-mainstrem channels, and not trust thos who didn't use the 3rd party validator.

I'm just saying - there's a high demand for trust. One could argue that the currency of the forseable future is indeed "trust".

How do I know this entire thing isn't AI generated?

Why can't we just have a third party vetting service for true content, where the content is labeled with a serial number and URL, and I can just look it up on the third party service's site to confirm it's validity (and if the content has no serial number watermarked on it, then I just ignore it as false)???

This makes zero sense as 3rd presidential terms are barred by the 22nd Amendment. Why am I even writing this?

But I listen to a hundred albums a year and I'm only going to live another ~400 months.

Ha, so true. I'm a total scavenger. I always scan the ground closely when I'm walking. Oddly, for whatever reason, I'm either just looking for interesting things or specifically for diamonds. I've found 3 diamonds in my life just laying on the ground - only one of which was real:P It is a rush though. I could totally see myself metal detecting.

When you make a photocopy of a photocopy... of a photocopy, you get a VERY blurry photocopy.

That's an interesting thought. I wonder if you can quantify this belief? That Weibull (presumably) distribution would be an interesting and useful thing to know.

Seriously, isn't society crumbling into a distopian future fast enough? Now we need to bet on innocent people dying?

Humans are the worst.

I was a wee bit interested, but lost interest when the charity for penalty contributions was pre-selected for me. Back to zombie town I go.

Here's a bunch from ocean city Maryland: https://oceancitylive.com/

You can film them, just not obstruct with them executing their official duties.

Personally, I'd wait another 3 years to visit until this brainless ass clown is out of office (or maybe 10 years later after our society recovers a bit from completely melting down because we have a civil war when said ass clown refuses to peacefully leave office and the large number of ass clown citizens back him up because they are afraid to truly live freely)

I make this recommendation as a very reluctant republican (who proudly has never voted for president ass clown).

Except I (and a quickly increasing number of slow to adopt colleagues) use generative AI everyday as a mechanical engineering manager.

I recall the hype of all the others - especially block chain and NFTs, brainstorming if these were worth finding use-cases for. We couldn't find any.

Sorry, GAI is different.

(FWIW I also think the Metaverse is different, but the HUD technology isn't anywhere near ready yet. Give it time)

Nice - right? How annoying is that. If a public human can read content, why can't an LLM? ChatGPT/Claude also (at least the for me, also don't consistently fully review the content I upload for review. Sometimes it's full, but most of the time (especially if it's a larger document, say 100pg pdf or 15 python scripts), I have to continually push them to go through everything.

Really annoying - thank you for this! Now, am I too lazy to apply it, that's the question.

First, I applaud what you're doing. Second, if you've already pondered these ideas, please disregard.

Third, I'm 49 years old and I was heavily into the "payola is evil, liberate music back to the ears of the listeners" movement, that spawned projects like muxtape, Napster, jamendo, and ultimately Spotify and the like (my involvement was nowhere near the scale of any of these players, but I knew the space well).

Now, I miss the Clive Davis's of the world. Go figure. I also miss trading cassette tapes with my friends, but today, to some degree, I do that through Spotify, but it's not the same. Of course, am not the same as the kid that was trading tapes. I'm a different person, no longer pedaling down the street to buy the latest Bad Religion album to listen to at a sleep over. Today I'd be more inclined towards Theloneous Monk. Nevertheless, I still LOVE listenng to, discovering and sharing music. I could be wrong, but given the trend, I don't really feel like that will change until I die.

With the context, I offer the following thoughts, to take or leave:

1. Maybe reconsider whether algorithms are indeed the enemy. The world of music is vast. Algorithms are powerful in helping me find new music in that ocean. However, the current Algorithms do seem quite myopic to me, functioning more like a echo chamber, vice expanding my musical aperture. So, maybe consider an algorithm, but one that functions more like the legacy music industry system network comprising scouts, producers, agents, managers and labels. Maybe even with some humans in the loop. The discovery and sharing go hand-in-hand. You want to share what you discover and love. Algorithms, I believe, can still help listeners discover.

2. Maybe consider radio. I don't fully understand why it seems as though people are forgetting the amazing network that is FM/AM radio (not internet radio). It's a one-way, open and persistent broadcast of information to subscribers - in a geographical vicinity that is. That latter piece is key. If I'm dialed-into a station, I know that others listening are in my local proximity and so are experiencing the same local issues as me (e.g. politics, crime, weather, natural disasters, war, etc). The other people listening aren't necessarily your friends, or family or colleagues (though some may be of course), but rather just people in this geolocal bubble you happen to be in together. The structure of our radio network is constrained geographically, which I believe is a massive strongsuit, vice a weakness. Bottom line, I suspect there is a benefit to the listener in music sharing mediums that are, perhaps at least in part, geographically constrained.

Keep going! Love where this is headed

"Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even one oddly shaped snowflake can exert an influence on the final frosty pattern."

I wish writers would do a better job of conveying chaos. Yes, the butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil (or whatever) can drastically influence the weather a continent away. But I think the true wonder of chaos needs to consider that if that butterfly were turned a few degrees in another direction, the resultant weather can be completely different. It's these infinitesmally small changes in parameters resulting in widely different outcomes that really brings the idea of chaos to life I think.

Ha - I thought the same thing the last scene of EP5. Guess we'll see on Friday.

"It's People!!!"

Just realized that the show pluribus was an allegory for AI (or more specifically, the LLM's of the world). Turns out, the show creators didn't intend that at all, which makes me even more interested in how this thing plays out.

FWIW, ChatGPT seems to do a perfectly fine job:

https://chatgpt.com/share/692a1119-e1d4-8009-95e3-259e52a19f...

I'm not sure I understand what the problem is.

Thanks. I do understand the value in holding debt, to my engineering brain it's analogous to a heat sink - without it, energy (money) has impetus to flow. I guess I don't have a good sense for what "the right" amount of debt is for a country, so to your point, I don't really have solid reason to assume we should even care about buying down our debt.

I think the root of my confusion was clarified by the other reply above - it's not that the US just has a stash of excess capital coming in and UBI is a way to spend it, but rather UBI is a way for a government to step in, and force it's ultra-rich citizens to put their money back into the economic engine at the base level... like an artificial mechanism to account for some percieved flaw in the natural capitalistic process.